Bibcode
Pflamm-Altenburg, J.; Weidner, C.; Kroupa, P.
Referencia bibliográfica
Pathways Through an Eclectic Universe ASP Conference Series, Vol. 390, proceedings of the conference held 23-27 April, 2007 at Santiago del Teide, Tenerife, Spain. Edited by J. H. Knapen, T. J. Mahoney, and A. Vazdekis San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2008., p.196
Fecha de publicación:
6
2008
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Descripción
The recent finding that the integrated galactic initial stellar mass
function, comprising all newly formed stars in all young star clusters,
has, through its dependence on the star formation rate, a steeper slope
in the high mass regime than the underlying canonical initial mass
function of each star cluster individually offers new insights into the
galactic star formation process. The classical linear relation between
the star formation rate and the resultant Hα luminosity is broken
and star formation rates are always underestimated. Our new relation is
likely to lead to a revision of cosmological star formation history.